Well, as consciousness is dependently arisen on the senses, and embryos don't even have a nervous system until the fourth week (I think that's when, if anyone knows differently please correct me), so I would suppose that prior to developing a nervous system able to engage in some sort of sense activity, the embryo doesn't have any consciousness. That's just my opinion, however.

The non-doing of any evil, The performance of what's skillful,The cleansing of one's own mind: This is the Buddhas' teaching.

Bakmoon wrote:Well, as consciousness is dependently arisen on the senses, and embryos don't even have a nervous system until the fourth week (I think that's when, if anyone knows differently please correct me), so I would suppose that prior to developing a nervous system able to engage in some sort of sense activity, the embryo doesn't have any consciousness. That's just my opinion, however.

Vinnana has namarupa and sankhara as condition, and alongside the six sense bases and an appropriate percept in range, forms the tripartite condition for contact.

"And how is it, bhikkhus, that by protecting oneself one protects others? By the pursuit, development, and cultivation of the four establishments of mindfulness. It is in such a way that by protecting oneself one protects others.

"And how is it, bhikkhus, that by protecting others one protects oneself? By patience, harmlessness, goodwill, and sympathy. It is in such a way that by protecting others one protects oneself.- Sedaka Sutta [SN 47.19]

The trick is to decide if the locative case employed in this-that conditionality should be interpreted to entail a temporal reading or a causative reading (that is temporally disjunct). The Chinese translators of the Agamas elected the causative...

Bakmoon wrote:Well, as consciousness is dependently arisen on the senses, and embryos don't even have a nervous system until the fourth week (I think that's when, if anyone knows differently please correct me), so I would suppose that prior to developing a nervous system able to engage in some sort of sense activity, the embryo doesn't have any consciousness. That's just my opinion, however.

Vinnana has namarupa and sankhara as condition, and alongside the six sense bases and an appropriate percept in range, forms the tripartite condition for contact.

I know that, but it's a lot easier to ask when an embryo has the six sense bases than it is to try to see when an embryo has namarupa and sankhara.

The non-doing of any evil, The performance of what's skillful,The cleansing of one's own mind: This is the Buddhas' teaching.

This rebirth-consciousness is regarded as pure as it is either devoid of immoral roots of lust, hatred, and delusion accompanied by moral roots.

. “Radiant is this consciousness,” (pabhassaram idam cittam) says the Buddha inthe Anguttara Nikāya vol. 1, p. 10. According to the commentator the Buddhawas thus referring to the rebirth-consciousness

Hi SylvesterThanks for your search. Se the page 406 of attached link for the following statement:------This relinking-consciousness is regarded as “radiant”(pabhassara) as it is either devoid of immoralroots of lust, hatred and delusion (as in the case of‘rootless resultants—ahetukavipàka), or accompaniedby moral roots (as in the case of ‘resultants with roots’).

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Please also see page 315 and 316 for death and rebirth thought moments. I think in this case Re linking consciousness is equal to Bhava consciousness

Hi allA link is provided by a forum member "dammafriend" in another discussion. I found that there is a wealth of information in regard to this discussion. It appears to me that the sperm cell and the ovarim egg are mere sustenance for the "Gandhabba"